I would like to clarify at the outset that it is the evils of Islam theology, and not necessarily the individual character of Muslim parents, that make raising children in Islam such a troublesome matter.
Muslim individuals, including parents, can be either good or bad human beings. It is the extent to which a person adheres to the many inhumane dictates of Islamic theology that determine whether a person is respectable or not. I personally wish Muslims well, despite my deep antipathy towards Mohammedanism.
Speaking as a former Muslim who is repulsed by the depredations of Islamic theology, I assert that it is a great misfortune to be born into Islam and a great shame for parents to raise children in Islam. The reader may ask, What are the depredations of Islamic theology? In previous articles found HERE, I address Islam’s sanctioning of spousal abuse, its deadly homophobia, its death penalty for apostasy, etc.
There is arguably no greater parental responsibility than that of raising a child with a humane belief system. In fact, it would be far better to raise a child with no particular belief system than to insist that a child adhere to an ethically unsound set of beliefs. And Islam is without doubt a highly unethical ideology.
Furthermore, I would argue that committing one’s life to the practice and promotion of Islam is among the most foolish and self-defeating decisions that a human being can make for themselves and their family. For not only would such a person be practising an untrue, morally abhorrent religion, he or she would essentially be betraying humanity and future generations.
A particularly tragic aspect of raising children in Islam is the intense pressure placed upon Muslims to conform to Islamic rules and traditions. The pressure to obey Islamic dictates is especially concerning as it relates to Muslim girls, when one considers realities such as the permissibility of child marriage (due to the example of Muhammad marrying a six-year-old child and consummating the marriage when the child reached the age of nine (see Sahih Muslim Book 8, Number 3309), the stipulation that a Muslim woman may not marry a non-Muslim man (Quran 2:221), wearing Islamic head and body coverings, and on and on. Girls who refuse to obey such rules face threats of real violence from family members and the Islamic community. Honor killings are all too common within the Islamic community for females who attempt to break from Islamic norms. Brutal Sharia law is well known to be especially strict towards females. Sadly, the Sharia is sourced from the Quran and Muhammad’s Sunnah; therefore, Muslim families essentially enforce an informal version of the Islamic law when punishing those who stray from obedience to Mohammedanism.
Another troublesome aspect of raising children in Islam is the hatred of unbelievers and non-Islamic faith traditions that Islam inculcates in the minds of young persons. This hatred and dehumanizing of unbelievers is crystallized in Qur’anic verses such as those found below, stating that unbelievers are the worst of creatures and Muslim’s the best of peoples:
Qur’an 3:110: You are the best of people that has been raised up for mankind. You command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and you believe in Allah. And if the people of the book had believed, it would have been better for them. Some of them are believers, but most of them are rebellious.
Qur’an 98:6: Indeed, the unbelievers among the people of the book and the idolaters will remain in the fire of Gehenna. They are the most vile of created beings.
Another example of the Islam-inspired hatred that is taught to Muslim children are the Qur’anic passages below aimed at Christians and Jews. Such hateful passages fuel the persecution and bloodshed currently taking place in Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and elsewhere, where the murder of Christians in particular is commonplace and only increasing. Hatred of unbelievers is the undercurrent of Islam and the foundational reason why young boys and men commit the innumerable jihad attacks we see occurring throughout the world in 2023.
Qur’an 3:28: Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security. Allah bids you to beware of him. To Allah is the journeying.
Qur’an 5:51: O you who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends of one another. He among you who takes them for friends is of them. Indeed, Allah does not guide wrongdoing people.
Qur’an 9:29: Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.
The social strife and violent conflict that Islam naturally creates between Muslims and unbelievers is playing out in Europe and UK in dramatic fashion. In the short span of a few decades, hundreds of large no-go zones have developed throughout Europe, where non-Muslims dare not enter for reasons of safety. And it is in this Islamic cultural milieu that Muslim children are raised to distrust and hate the non-Islamic state and its non-Islamic citizens.
The blind obedience and cult-like sway that Islam has over its adherents is profound, due to fear, false promises of heavenly rewards, and community reprisal for leaving Islam or transgressing against Islamic tradition. It should not be underestimated just how firmly Muslim believers will continue to cling to this cruel ideology. For the reasons mentioned above, Muslim parents continue to deny the fact that it is grave injustice to raise children in Islam. The best hope for the world is that Muslim parents find ways to safely leave Islam with their children and then speak out against the harms and falsehoods of the religion.
If Muslims can be made to see the hideous falsehood of Islam, people have a chance at living in relative harmony with one another despite the various challenges that arise over time. Reflecting on my twenty-five years living as an ex-Muslim, I believe the three most harmful and ironic passages in the entire Islamic canon are these:
Qur’an 5:3: This day I have perfected your religion for you and completed my favor to you, and have chosen Islam as the religion for you.
Qur’an: 16:89: And the day when we raise in every nation a witness against them from their own people, and we bring you as a witness against these. And we reveal the book to you as an explanation of all things, and a guidance and a mercy and good news for the Muslims.
33:21: Indeed in the messenger of Allah you have an excellent example for him who looks to Allah and the last day, and remembers Allah a great deal.
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK, explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues:
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.
I once saw an Indonesian Muslim family in the car-park of our local Australian shopping centre. The mother – wearing the full Islamic costume – was struggling to push the laden shopping trolley while holding the hand of her 2 year-old daughter who was also wearing the complete costume. In the trolley was a baby girl about 3 months old who was also wearing the full regalia – hijab and face veil. While the father walked along holding the hand of his 3 year-old son, refusing to help his wife.
I saw a muslima in full garb, beating the crap out of her husband in front of there 3 male children.
In the House of Pancakes parking lot, it was probably the bacon that made her do it.
Those kids had seen it so much they didnt even bother looking up at the violence.
It was a good morning for me.
Chivalry simply does not exist in non-Western cultures. Don’t expect it to be there. But do expect it from the men in your own culture and, if you are a man, strive to practice it.
One aspect of this that the article overlooks is that even the most liberal of Muslim parents will send their children to the Madrassah for fear of reprisal or ostracism from the Muslim community as “bad Muslims”.
In the Madrassah the children will be indoctrinated in all the evils mentioned – including those that say that unless a Muslim believes fully they are bad Muslims, munifiqoon or murtadoon (hypocrites or apostates).
Thus even when the starting point is from a very liberal position, as the generations pass, orthodoxy grows within the Muslim community. Something I have observed first-hand within my own community.
The crucial problem isn’t Islam, the crucial problem is the slow collapse of the West. The collapse of the West consists of the West’s loss of confidence in reason and therefore the West is abandoning reality.
The West is now collapsing into irrational ideas, philosophies, and ideologies. Such as suicidal altruism, collectivism, socialism, communism, fascism, Globalism, Global Warming/Climate Change, moral relativism, cultural relativism, transgenderism, anti-racism. The proliferation of irrationality is spreading like an intellectual cancer at an ever growing speed. Even science is collapsing into pseudo-science, fake science, like Global Warming and transgenderism.
A West confident in reason and reason’s ability to establish the facts of reality would not be committing altruistic, cultural, suicide by inviting an invasion by such abject irrationality as contained in Islam. A rational West would never have given up its oil rights to the Muslim savages ruling the Muslim world. On the contrary, a rational West would have crushed Islam long ago. A rational America would have carpet bombed Saudi Arabia and Iran after 9/11. Wiping Mecca and Medina off the face of the earth. It would have taken back ownership and control of the oil in Saudi Arabia and Iran. And that would have been the end of Islam and any Muslim pretense and delusion that Allah is great or could protect them.
The loss of enthusiastic, optimistic confidence in Christianity has been a deciding factor in the collapse of the West. One cannot deny it.
The worst part of raising children as Muslims is teaching little girls to be ashamed of their bodies. The recent trend of full covering of young girls, toddlers, and infants is disgusting. When I lived in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia 20-30 years ago, none of that existed. Little girls went free, dressed in pretty dresses. Covering only began at puberty, and depending on the culture of various Muslim countries, varied from just head scarves to full abaya/hijab. And you don’t even mention Female Genital Mutilation, which is barbaric.
And teaching little boys that women — including their mothers and sisters are worthless, and beneath contempt. That women exist only to serve men (in every sense of the word)
And the child sexual exploitation that goes on in all Muslim countries — of boys and girls. And has spread to Western European countries — where Muslim grooming gangs trade white and other girls as sex slaves, with the knowledge and aquiescence of social services and police. And the rape epidemics all over Europe where young Muslim men have been taught that western women want and deserve to be raped.
Reminds me Rotterham, England.
The cops saw no child enslavement, heard no child enslavement – mainly at the direction of leftist fools hell bent on inclusion.
So children had to suffer sexual rapes & beatings so that a leftist politician wouldn’t suffer any embarrassment over their policies of importing islam.
Islam by far is the most intolerant of all major religions. The more its adherents see the light and leave, the better off we all will be.
islam is a disgusting ideology exactly as nacism
In the United States and elsewhere around the world, it is difficult to separate those people who want to believe in some parts of Islam as a religion and reject other parts which no longer represent their personal religious views. Judaism and Christianity have teachings in their writings and history that are rejected now as incompatible with current beliefs. Even their concept of G-D has been modified to comport with the modern era. G-d is less the wrathful, vengeful type and more loving and nurturing. Islam has no apparent moderation of practice except for a few who live their lives fearful of being murdered as apostates. This has been consistent for the past 1400-plus years, and nothing suggests it will change.
Consequently, the West will survive only if it accepts that Islam is a paramilitary theocracy and not a religious movement. This is a war to be fought. Perhaps Islam as a religion will one day emerge after the defeat of political Islam.
The truth is beginning to come to the fore. Most of the Muslims I know are very nice people but held back more by their religion, by fear, not affection.
Saleem Smith, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for speaking the truth & telling the world about a dangerous
cult called Islam. Please take care of yourself, wishing you a long & happy life.
Why do some Muslims see the light and leave Islam, when so many others succumb to its inhumanity? What can be done to encourage more men and women to leave this horrid religion and way of life?
islam is a Fascist Religious Cult..
islamism is the new nazism.